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This $2.1-million retrofuturistic dome home is an inhabitable EPCOT
The owners spent 25 years renovating the space to accentuate the home’s spherical shape
Habitat: This prefab cabin was built on a family’s Georgian Bay island in 10 days
“It seemed like the most magical piece of nature. It was so close to Toronto but still felt worlds away."
We bought an old ambulance and turned it into a home
“It’s our own little sanctuary on wheels”
I couldn’t find affordable student housing, so I settled for a mouldy basement.
“The basement was grimy and smelled like damp wood or a cottage shed in the middle of summer”
This remote, fire-resistant Okanagan home was modelled after the mountain beetle
“We didn’t want to wreck the environment with a mansion—we wanted it to remain wild”
Habitat: This sustainable Nova Scotia home is a coastal refuge
“It came to us perfect. We’ve grown so attached to it that we never want to leave.”
This YouTuber explores abandoned houses in the GTA. Here’s what he’s seen.
“The whole concept of being somewhere I wasn’t supposed to be was very exciting”
The Move: After a cancer diagnosis, this Ontario couple headed to P.E.I. to retire (and relax)
For Ontarians Doug and Teri Johnson, a health scare was the catalyst for slower pace of life in Prince Edward Island
A filmmaker built this wood cabin from scratch on a cliff in Quebec
There was just one problem: he didn’t have a construction background, or even tools